[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [三寶感應要略錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084) › 3.9 # 三寶感應要略錄 3.9 三寶感應要略錄 3.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3.9) 五臺縣照果寺釋解脫。俗性刑本土也。常誦法花。并作佛光等觀。追尋文殊。於東堂之左。再三逢遇。初則禮已尋失。後則親承旨誨。脫請問文殊曰。大士如何利益此土愚癡無智闕信難化眾生。文殊告曰。我一日三時。入破散眾魔三時。破此土眾生魔業。入智母三昧。破愚癡暗。往地獄中。一一地獄現作佛身。放光說法。往餓鬼城。能施飲食。餘人所施。入口化為火炭。唯我所施。能益身心。生天解脫。入畜生道。能除愚癡。開悟智解。皆令發菩提心。脫又問曰。何眾生得化度。文殊曰。畫我形像。造我形像。或以手爪。或如奄羅草。口自發言稱南無。如此眾生。易可化度。自餘眾生。雖盡悲心。以自業故難可化度。又問。脫如何即悟無生永無退落。文殊曰。汝往昔造我形像三寸許。善根既熟。今何須親禮於我。所自悔責必悟解耳。脫敬承聖旨。因自內求。乃悟無生。兼增法喜。乃感諸佛現身說法矣。 > Shi Jietuo of Zhaoguo Monastery in Wutai County was secularly surnamed Xing and a native of that place. He regularly recited the Lotus Sūtra and performed visualizations such as the Buddha-light, seeking Mañjuśrī. To the left of the Eastern Hall, he met him repeatedly. At first, after bowing, he would lose sight of him; later, he personally received instructions and teachings. Jietuo asked Mañjuśrī: "How does the Great Being benefit the foolish, ignorant, faithless, and difficult-to-transform sentient beings of this land?" Mañjuśrī replied: "Three times each day, I enter the Three Periods of Shattering the Hordes of Māras to break the māra-karma of the sentient beings of this land. I enter the Samādhi of the Mother of Wisdom to dispel the darkness of ignorance. I go into the hells; in each hell, I manifest as a buddha-body, emitting light and expounding the Dharma. I go to the city of hungry ghosts and can give them food and drink. What other people give turns into burning embers upon entering their mouths; only what I give can benefit their bodies and minds, causing them to be reborn in the heavens and attain liberation. I enter the animal realm, where I can eliminate ignorance, open up their wisdom and understanding, and cause them all to give rise to the mind of awakening (bodhicitta)." Jietuo further asked: "Which sentient beings can be saved and transformed?" Mañjuśrī said: "Those who paint my image or make my image, whether with fingernails or like āmra grass, and orally utter 'Namo'—such sentient beings are easy to save and transform. As for other sentient beings, though I exhaust my compassionate mind, they are difficult to save and transform because of their own karma." Jietuo asked further: "How may Jietuo immediately awaken to non-arising and never regress?" Mañjuśrī said: "In the past, you made an image of me about three inches tall; your roots of goodness have already matured, so why must you now personally bow to me? Through your own self-reproach, you will surely attain awakening." Jietuo respectfully received the holy instruction, looked inward within himself, and awakened to non-arising, additionally increasing in the joy of the Dharma. He then moved the buddhas to manifest their bodies and expound the Dharma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3.8) - [Next: 3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3.10) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084~en-mt.3.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.3.9) · Pramāṇa